In #Python you can use textwrap.dedent to remove any common leading whitespace from every line in text (thanks @brianokken) Check it out!

def test():
    # end first line with \ to avoid the empty line!
    s = '''\
    hello
      world
    '''
    print(repr(s))          # prints '    hello\n      world\n    '
    print(repr(dedent(s)))  # prints 'hello\n  world\n'